'It’s About Fairness, Plain And Simple': Another State BANS Transgender Athletes From Competing In College Sports

Alabama has joined numerous other states in passing legislation banning transgender females from participating in women's sporting events in college, with Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) signing the bill into law on Tuesday.

The bill, named HB261, would prohibit any two- or four-year institution from allowing “a biological male from participating on an athletic team or sport designated for females” and “a biological female from participating on an athletic team or sport designated for males.”

The bill managed to get through both the House and Senate in Alabama with massive support, getting a 26-4 vote in the Senate and an 83-5 vote in the House.

The state has already restricted transgender athletes from participating in sporting events in K-12 schools, but the new legislature expands that to the highest educational institutions in the state. 

“Look, if you are a biological male, you are not going to be competing in women’s and girls’ sports in Alabama. It’s about fairness, plain and simple,” Governor Ivey said in a statement following the signing of the bill. 

"Forcing women to compete against biological men would reverse decades of progress that women have made for equal opportunity in athletics," Rep. Susan DuBose (R), the bill’s sponsor, told the committee last month, per Fox News. The state representative added that "no amount of hormone therapy can undo all those advantages" of being born male.

As always, LGBTQ organizations have come out against the ban, arguing that prohibiting biological men from destroying the integrity of female sporting activities is somehow oppressive and immoral. Carmarion D. Anderson-Harvey, the director for the Alabama sector of the Human Rights Campaign, attempted to claim that doing so is a “systematic attack against LGBTQ+ people,” per AP News.

“In just two years, she and extremist lawmakers in Alabama have passed four anti-LGBTQ+ bills,” Anderson-Harvey whined. “From dictating what bathrooms we can use to blatantly ignoring the actual problems in women’s sports, these politicians are making Alabama an increasingly hostile place for transgender people and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole.”

Alabama continues to fight to protect its biological women from mentally ill men that are filled with hormone injections. Nothing that can be done will ever take away the advantage in sporting events of being born a man, and nothing that can be done will ever make a man a woman or a woman a man. It’s more important to protect biological women than appease the alphabet soup groups and Governor Ivey seems to understand that well.